Public opinion of wind energy in Germany, once unanimously high, has eroded considerably over the past years as more people begin to realize that the country’s once idyllic countryside is turning into a blighted industrial landscape.

The earlier visions of environmental purity are instead turning out to be illusions by con-artists. The reality is an environmental hell.

Blighted landscape…everything “blinking and rotating”

And the irony could not be more glaring. German environmentalists used to be devoted to all things that protected forests and rural countryside against the ravages of industrialization. But now, Büscher writes, “It’s the same activists who are blandishing the blighting of the landscape.”

Büscher describes the views of wind parks in Bavaria as “massively appalling”. While German industry once only ruined local areas of the country, such as the Ruhr industrial region, Büscher adds:

The wind industry is not satisfied with that. It wishes to subject the entire country to its moral galvanized industry. Whether it’s Magdeburg or Warburg Saxony Anhalt regions, whether it’s Holstein or the lower Harz region – everything is rotating and blinking, the further north you go, the worse it is.”

Büscher forgot to mention “whooshing” and “shredding”.

Germany’s march into environmental insanity

Yet, in the eyes of the wind industry, Büscher laments, “The wind industrialization of Germany is not only without alternative, it is an aesthetic benefit. The industry truly believes the entire country needs to by planted with turbines from border to border.”

As incredible as it may be that a country managed to get its citizens to march into the murderous folly of Nazism some 85 years ago, a similar phenomenon is happening today on the environmental front: there’s now the mad march into environmental murder. The collective German conscience still truly believes it’s all going to rescue the planet from a climate calamity which a group of (false) prophets foresee arriving in the year 2100. Environmental purity awaits!

Back on the eerie path of self-destruction

Of course wind industrialization cannot be compared to Nazism on the scales of murder and destruction, but the path and development stages of the two insanities are the eerily similar. Both proceeded as follows: 1) visions and promises of purification, 2) the mad, blind rush into the project 3) critics silenced, 4) signs of mounting failure ignored, 5) denial, retreat to the bunkers and 6) in evitable self-destruction. In both cases it’s all brought on by intoxicated leaders, one-sided media apparatus, crony industries, dogmatist institutions and unscrupulous banks.

Once madness goes collective, it becomes very difficult to stop.

When Germany gets an obsession in its head, the only thing that is left to stop it is the act of letting it play out and until it destroys itself. We may soon be witnessing the Rise and Fall of The Environmental Reich. Currently we find ourselves somewhere between phases 4 and 5.

Fortunately there are shimmers of hope that leading politicians are beginning to understand, as the newly formed Merkel-led government seems to be in no hurry to keep promoting big wind at any cost.

Former federal minister: “high price to pay”

Not only is the environmental price mentioned by Büscher excruciatingly high, but so is the financial price of the Energiewende, this according to former German Transportation Minister, Peter Ramsauer, now Chairman of the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“Object lesson to other countries”

Ramsauer warned against the hasty shutdown of half of the country’s nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster back in 2011, “but no one wanted to listen”.

The PNP writes that it was “a fundamental mistake to believe that it would be possible to adequately replace the nuclear power”. Ramsauer told the PNP:

Germany is paying a high price for it and offers an object lesson to other countries.”

The PNP summarizes: “There’s no going back. The deadline for shutting down the remaining nuclear reactors is 2022. Ramsauer says that Germany will have to get used to high electricity prices and dependency on Russian gas. The folly will then be complete.”

Your comparative analysis of the Third Reich and the Environmental Reich is brilliant. It encapsulates with great discernment the essence of what we Germans ought to learn from the Energiewende.

The willingness of the population to let them be gleichgeschaltet is shocking. So is the lack of democratic-pluralist instincts and critical thinking that would make us Germans, of all peoples, shy away from the totalitarian tendencies that have been building up in an age when green pseudo-environmentalism has become the ruling ideology in Germany, indeed the new church that unites almost all Germans.

You don’t understand. There are many historical cases of runaway collective madness. The magnitude is not what is being compared here, rather their respective common pattern of development. The rise and fall of Nazism is the one that is probably best known and thus best serves to illustrate. Moreover, there are a number of publications out there showing how environmentalism and Nazism are related and similar. You’re very upset.

Sebastian. You are an idiot. Stay home and don’t go in the internet. The Nazis were the first environmentalists. See reference above. It’s one thing being a cretin. Quite another flaunting it in public. Get a life mate. You are a crashing bore.

Must read. Rupert Darwall’s (He of the Age of Global Warming, a comprehensive takedown fully referenced and annotated of CAGW) recent “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex” which documents the rise of environmentalism courtesy of the Nazis. Amazon and hopefully your library. Sweden also massively implicated – which figures, as they flirted with totalitarianism for decades.

The PNP summarizes: “There’s no going back. The deadline for shutting down the remaining nuclear reactors is 2022. Ramsauer says that Germany will have to get used to high electricity prices and dependency on Russian gas. The folly will then be complete.”

Being dependent on Russian gas is mad, but luckily Merkel will have to do another Energiewende. Russian gas is a tool for Putin, money to him is money to chemical weapons in Syria – and Salisbury. Just look his Chutzpah when he talks! He knows Germany is on its way to submission. Trump’s Russian collusion is just fools speech, but Putin’s Russia freaking dangerous to all of us, Russians included, and it is present, also on catastrophic global warming contrarianism blogs. Don’t be fooled.

Show us, me how to build a battery, solar panel or windmill with a windmill.

You probably mean how we could get the raw materials needed to build these things by using just electricity, right?

Be creative, you can heat with electricity, you can move stuff with electricity. Why wouldn’t that work?

Then and only then we can do without oil.

Why oil? Do you mean because the transport of those raw materials relies on oil using machinery? Why couldn’t that be replaced electric vehicles? And even if we can’t fit ships with pure electric propulsion … replacing all the rest is still better than no change at all.

Wind turbines are a blight upon avian wildlife and the environment, and if it weren’t for the manically idiotic anti-CO2 scare/fallacy, nobody would ever have bothered WASTING such HUGE amounts of unproductive funds , time and manufacturing potential on them.

ASIDE – I get the impression you’re laughing at him, as opposed to being angry. Amazing how they can’t get anything straight. I guess that’s what comes of their telling so many lies; they become incapable of telling the truth about anything.

…normalising for energy production, the renewables subsidies are 8.4 times larger and amount to 94% of the value of the energy produced. This latter statistic is hard to believe, but if it is close to true, it suggests that new renewables are contributing virtually nothing to society.

…contributing virtually nothing to society. Just like chatbots everywhere.

Oh yes, please remind everyone about this very strange calculation. 350000 wind turbines a 2 MW (the original had 5 MW, but whatever) to cover the increase in primary energy consumption. The consumption increase was around 172 Mtoe (or 2000 TWh), but you can’t directly compare that with usage of electricity. You’d only need 666 TWh of wind generated electricity to cover a 2000 TWh primary energy increase. At 5 MW per turbine and a capacity factor of 18% that’s 85000 5 MW wind turbines. 2017 saw 10500 new wind turbines (if they all would have been 5 MW turbines). At the current growth rate installed wind power will double every 7 years … it will only take a few decades until renewables could cover most or even all of the yearly increase in energy demand, meaning “peak everything else”.

We are just at the start and wind isn’t the only renewable in town. My bet would be on solar energy slowly overtaking wind.

All that need be kept in mind is that wind and solar electricity generation runs independent of customer demand. Generation without respect for customer demand is very, very inefficient! This generated amount (from these grid ruinable sources) is highly variable and can maximize at the baseplate generation value, which is often too much for the require customer demand; or on sunless, windless days zero. Either state is far less than optimum for the customer.

Fossil fuel generation, on the other hand, allows the generated electricity to exactly match the required customer’s load demand. Thus it simply and efficiently tailors it’s output to match current and predicted customer demand, keeping the grid stability at a maximum.
As grid ruinable electricity sources, like wind and solar, can not be regulated for demand but they have priority in supplying the grid, they added a new level of control to the grid, a control that throttles the simplicity and efficiency gains of fossil fuel generation whilst adding considerable complexity to grid control. With ruinable generation on the grid, the fossil fuel generators now have to regulate not just for a variable customer demand but also the variable ruinable energy generation.
THIS IS A LOSE-LOSE SITUATION with very high initial costs for bringing in wind and solar (with subsidy and industrialization of the countryside), very high running costs when putting them on the grid (grid control with additional fossil fuel expenditure), and added unreliability and instability to the grid system. None of which (I’m sure) the cost paying customers have demanded.

Thankfully this experiment is being done in Germany, and not so wholeheartedly close to where I live. I pray Mrs Merkel continues with this policy, so that the rest of the world will see what an appallingly mess results from installing these unreliable electricity sources onto a grid system.

Concentration discussion all over again? The argument he makes is not about the “tiny” fraction of renewables (around 14% in Germany), but the instability of the electricity grid with high fractions of renewables – namely wind and solar.

Why are you countering an argument that the fraction is high and the grid is not unstable with a “rhetorical” primary energy question? What’s the point of doing that?

“German obsession with renewable energy originates deep within its culture. Few know today that the Nazis were the first political party to champion wind power, Hitler calling wind the energy of the future.”

I have a long term inner ear problem originally caused by an infection. It means I am very dependent on sight for my balance, which makes me very suseptable to disorientaion and even loss of balance from large moving objects, particularly on the periphery of my vision. I have to be extremely careful when driving past or towards turbines to fight the sensation that I am turning. Awful things!

and of course the recent admission that hundreds of blades used at offshore windfarms will have to be replaced after five years. As opposed to the 25 years we were told they would last. No doubt that cost will be passed on to us.

Not to mention that you cannot make a wind without coal. Derrrr, as my kids used to say.

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